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Date:      Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:03:18 +0200
From:      Yury Tarasievich <grog@grsu.by>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: documentation on kernel locks, mutexes?
Message-ID:  <20021202090318.GB3340@deptty.in.grsu.by>
In-Reply-To: <3DE9ABCF.80AAAC2F@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021130184341.29371C-100000@fledge.watson.org> <3DE9ABCF.80AAAC2F@mindspring.com>

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On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:27:27PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Robert Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > Yury Tarasievich wrote:

> > > > I need to port some driver from linux to freebsd and, somehow,
> > > > I can't find documentation on kernel locks and mutexes.
> > > > There are no man pages, links from handbook are broken, and search on
> > > > freebsd site gives nothing (besides the handbook itself).
[...]
> I was thinking more in terms of device driver information.  All
> of the "how to write a driver for newbus", "how to write a CAM
> driver", "how to use devfs from the kernel", "what XXX to do in
> FreeBSD, given YYY in Linux", "how to port a driver from Linux
> to FreeBSD", etc., are missing.

Well, perhaps not THAT generic information... :)

> While it's true that kernel locks and mutexes are documented for
> SMPng, he posted to -hackers, not -current, and so he's probably
> not interested in -current primitives that aren't available in
> the 4.x -RELEASE and -STABLE branches.

Exactly my point, thanks!

And I'll point again that:
- links in handbook DO NOT work (freebsd.org does not have these pages (specifically lockmgr(9), mutex(9))
- and there are no man pages for them in distribution

I've even checked this with 4.4-RELEASE at hand -- seen same.


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